Child Welfare Services/Case Management System
Children in Out of Home Placements
Supervised by Welfare, by Placement
September 2005

County Total In
County		 %
In
County		 Out
of
County		 %
Out
of
County		 Out
of
State		 %
Out
of
State
California 80646 63214 78.4 15328 19.0 2104 2.6
Alameda 2993 1623 54.2 1278 42.7 92 3.1
Alpine 5 4 80.0 0 0 1 20.0
Amador 32 18 56.3 14 43.8 0 0
Butte 774 633 81.8 125 16.1 16 2.1
Calaveras 95 61 64.2 29 30.5 5 5.3
Colusa 48 23 47.9 25 52.1 0 0
Contra Costa 1818 1307 71.9 485 26.7 26 1.4
Del Norte 114 90 78.9 22 19.3 2 1.8
El Dorado 232 158 68.1 66 28.4 8 3.4
Fresno 2649 2163 81.7 457 17.3 29 1.1
Glenn 95 52 54.7 42 44.2 1 1.1
Humboldt 248 215 86.7 24 9.7 9 3.6
Imperial 286 225 78.7 58 20.3 3 1.0
Inyo 24 21 87.5 3 12.5 0 0
Kern 2663 2362 88.7 232 8.7 69 2.6
Kings 303 209 69.0 94 31.0 0 0
Lake 167 114 68.3 48 28.7 5 3.0
Lassen 74 40 54.1 33 44.6 1 1.4
Los Angeles 28078 24431 87.0 2966 10.6 681 2.4
Madera 310 168 54.2 141 45.5 1 0.3
Marin 87 65 74.7 19 21.8 3 3.4
Mariposa 54 28 51.9 25 46.3 1 1.9
Mendocino 285 195 68.4 82 28.8 8 2.8
Merced 635 414 65.2 212 33.4 9 1.4
Modoc 21 15 71.4 6 28.6 0 0
Mono 7 5 71.4 2 28.6 0 0
Monterey 484 412 85.1 51 10.5 21 4.3
Napa 125 87 69.6 38 30.4 0 0
Nevada 107 76 71.0 30 28.0 1 0.9
Orange 3140 2301 73.3 766 24.4 73 2.3
Placer 353 205 58.1 141 39.9 7 2.0
Plumas 40 23 57.5 17 42.5 0 0
Riverside 5253 3957 75.3 1205 22.9 91 1.7
Sacramento 4670 3543 75.9 1043 22.3 84 1.8
San Benito 78 29 37.2 49 62.8 0 0
San Bernardino 5056 3879 76.7 1041 20.6 136 2.7
San Diego 5927 5122 86.4 428 7.2 377 6.4
San Francisco 1937 878 45.3 996 51.4 63 3.3
San Joaquin 1794 1463 81.5 305 17.0 26 1.4
San Luis Obispo 410 306 74.6 87 21.2 17 4.1
San Mateo 468 294 62.8 165 35.3 9 1.9
Santa Barbara 497 359 72.2 135 27.2 3 0.6
Santa Clara 2133 1473 69.1 575 27.0 85 4.0
Santa Cruz 346 274 79.2 64 18.5 8 2.3
Shasta 552 451 81.7 88 15.9 13 2.4
Sierra 10 0 0 10 100.0 0 0
Siskiyou 143 86 60.1 49 34.3 8 5.6
Solano 604 479 79.3 118 19.5 7 1.2
Sonoma 518 358 69.1 146 28.2 14 2.7
Stanislaus 564 462 81.9 95 16.8 7 1.2
Sutter 193 82 42.5 104 53.9 7 3.6
Tehama 239 179 74.9 59 24.7 1 0.4
Trinity 30 21 70.0 9 30.0 0 0
Tulare 1178 932 79.1 221 18.8 25 2.1
Tuolumne 160 93 58.1 55 34.4 12 7.5
Ventura 644 520 80.7 97 15.1 27 4.2
Yolo 421 142 33.7 271 64.4 8 1.9
Yuba 231 89 38.5 141 61.0 1 0.4
Unknown 2 0 0 2 100.0 0 0
Unknown 242 0 0 239 98.8 3 1.2

This monthly caseload includes children whose out-of-home placement was closed, but whose placement episode record remained open for reasons deemed necessary by the social worker.
CDSS-Research and Development Division
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